Citations:hoplochrism

English citations of hoplochrism and hoplochrisme

• 1650: Jan Baptist van Helmont [aut.] and Walter Charleton [tr.], A Ternary of Paradoxes, prolegomenon divb

  Our disquisition of the δὶ ὅτι, or Casualties of Hoplochrisme.

• 1656: Thomas Blount, Glossographia, “Hoplochrism”

  Hoplochrism (from the Gr. ὁπλον, arma, and χρισμς, unguentum) an anointing of Armes or weapons; as they do in the use of the weapon-salve. Dr. Charl.

• 1717: Elisha Coles, An Engliſh Dictionary, HOR–HOS

  Hoplochriſm, g. the anointing a ſword (or rather Arms) with weapon ſlave.

• 1731: Nathan Bailey, An Univerſal Etymological Engliſh Dictionary, HONY–HORIZON (5th edition)

  HOPLOCHRISM [of ὅπλον, a Weapon, and χρίσμα, Salve, Gr.] Weapon Salve.

• 1775: John Ash, The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Honyſwetʹneſſe–Horʹda

  HOPʹLOCHRISM (s. from the Greek οπλον a weapon, and χρισμα ointment) The ſalve fooliſhly applied to a weapon in order to cure the wound that had been made by it.

• 1880: James Samuelson and Sir William Crookes [eds.], The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology, volume 17, page 538 (J. Churchill and Sons)

  It is not generally known that the superstitious practice of hoplochrism still prevails in Suffolk. If anyone injures himself with a tool or weapon he is at once exhorted to apply some healing ointment, not to the wound, but to the blade or point. The belief that stones are capable of growth is also still entertained in the Eastern counties.

• 1971: Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry, Ambix (journal), volume 18, pages 149–168: Nina Rattner Gelbart, “The Intellectual Development of Walter Charleton”, page 166 (Heffers Printers)

  He must have realized that belief in hoplochrism, even explained in terms of atoms, still smacked of superstition and was entirely inconsistent with his new mechanistic image.

• 1997: Nicolas Steno [aut.] and August Ziggelaar [tr., ed., compil.], Chaos: Niels Stensen’s Chaos-manuscript, Copenhagen, 1659, page 164 (Danish National Library of Science and Medicine; →ISBN, 9788716156501)

  About hoplochrism, telungium or weapon ointment¹²⁶ and about its main patron, author of Mosaic philosophy, and an elaborate refutation of that opinion.